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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forget trying. No one can talk about economic segregation in this county without rousing the nutty VOICE lobby that will show up in matching T shirts and call you a racist. Even though what you want is for ARlington to stop segregating its poor.  They’ll say—like this person on this thread—that you are calling poor immigrants stupid when it couldn’t be further from the truth. You get no credit for trying to help—even if you send your kids to school and volunteer everyday. Leave Randolph & Barcroft to the poor and the nasty, mindless liberal VOICE segregation advocates who manipulate them. You’ve been forewarned.  [/quote]

The County Board has been building a ghetto. That's a harsh word, but it's true. They're literally cramming as much AH on top of each other as humanly possible. And the so-called "liberal activists" who see themselves as champions of the oppressed, well ...you're complicit. [/quote]

Accurate, sadly. [/quote]

The thing is, AH is not really an ideological issue as much as it is now a professional concern. There are lots of people whose jobs consist of planning and building and managing AH, before during and after construction. The tenants are temporary; but the industry is now permanent and professionalized. It's fully integrated with the county board and it's become the primary way in which developers influence CB decision making. Questioning the "win-win" logic of the political arrangement gets one attacked as racist or hard-hearted, but it's mostly about threatening white collar people's professional and political 
interests.[/quote]

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